Christmas at the Movies

December 8, 2024, 2:00 pm

Featuring the classic animated film The Snowman shown with live orchestral accompaniment, plus movie selections from The Polar Express, Frozen, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas and other holiday favorites.

2024-2025 Season

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Performances take place at the Dick Van Dyke Auditorium at Danville High School.

Earth, Wind, Water, Fire

7:30 pm, Sat., Sept. 21, 2024

Stravinsky, The Firebird (FIRE); Thomson, The Plow that Broke the Plains (EARTH); Ethel Smyth, Overture to the Wreckers (WATER) Mozart Concerto for Clarinet (WIND), Trevor O'Riordan, clarinet

Christmas at the Movies

2:00 pm, Sun., Dec. 8, 2024

featuring The Snowman & The Polar Express plus other movie & holiday melodies

Beethoven and the Blues

7:30 pm, Sat., Mar. 22, 2025

Beethoven Symphony No. 7; Jessie Montgomery, Strum; Corky Siegel, harmonica, Chamber Symphony No. 6




Add-on performances (not included in season ticket price):

Halloween Spooktacular

“Side-By-Side” with the Danville High School Orchestra:

7:00 pm. Sat., Oct., 26, 2024 — Dick Van Dyke Auditorium (DHS)

Music of the Heavens

7:30 pm, Fri., May 9, 2025 — St. James United Methodist Church (note: not DVD/DHS)

Choral and instrumental selections from sacred music across time and space.




*Individual selections subject to change.






The Danville Symphony Orchestra is supported in part by:

The Danville Symphony Orchestra Foundation

The Allen L. Dougherty Guest Artist Fund

The Illinois Arts Council Agency

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